Oct 2019

MAHARASHTRA Unesco honours conservation of 3 Mumbai icons In a singular recognition of Mumbai’s heritage conservation movement, efforts made to spruce up three city landmarks — Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue at Kala Ghoda, Gloria Church in Byculla, and Flora Fountain — have won this year’s Unesco Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation. The fourth and most prestigious honour, the Award of Distinction, was … Read more

MAHARASHTRA   ●      Nagpur to host the 5th international conference on sleep disorders The fifth international conference on sleep disorders is being hosted in Nagpur from 12 October to 13 October 2019. The conference is held under the aegis of the Southeast Asian Academy of Sleep Medicine(SEAASM). The 5th international conference on sleep disorders is conducted by the Department of Respiratory, Critical … Read more

MAHARASHTRA ECI launches website for getting voting info at one click Now, voters can obtain information about polling booth (voting centres) and voters’ list at one click on website https://electoralsearch.in. This facility is made available by the Election Commission of India (ECI). The information includes address of polling centres, voter number and list, according to … Read more

MAHARASHTRA Maharashtra sees 1.15 lakh rise in disabled electors The state has registered an increase of nearly 1.15 lakh differently abled electors taking the total tally to 3.49 lakh as against 2.24 lakh voters registered in the Lok Sabha elections.   This is the first time that differently abled voters have been marked separately so … Read more

MAHARASHTRA ●      V Kakatkar elected as Maharashtra Cricket Association President   Vikas Kakatkar elected as President of the Maharashtra Cricket Association. Riyaz Bagban re-elected as secretary The elections for the period from 2019-2022 were conducted by electoral officer J S Saharia, former state election commissioner, the association said. The other elected office-bearers are Ajay Gupte (vice … Read more

MAHARASHTRA Investment in Vidarbha far less than proposed The ‘Make in India’ initiative of Narendra Modi-led government was launched from Mumbai on September 2014. The state government too followed with its own Magnetic Maharashtra programme to woo industries. The actual investment in Vidarbha under ‘Make in India’ today stands at 1.8% of the amount proposed … Read more

MAHARASHTRA Maharashtra school education rank slips 3 spots to 6 In the first-ever ranking of school education quality by Niti Aayog, Maharashtra improved its score on several indicators from the academic years 2015-16 to 2016-17 but lost to competition from other states. Maharashtra’s rank slipped from three in the base year of 2015-16 to six … Read more